Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 09:42:53 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3, RFC] watchdog dev BKL pushdown |
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 01:14:23 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> The Big Kernel Lock has been pushed down from chardev_open > to misc_open, this change moves it to the individual watchdog > driver open functions.
NAK. I've posted set of bigger patches which actually fix up all the watchdog locking code - and simply adding lock/unlock kernel isn't enough because of all the bugs in the code (it won't make it worse but it won't fix it either).
Alan
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